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The Assembly today issuedÂ its list of member item initiativesÂ – all 3,791 of them. The Senate has said it’s working on its list.

As the Manhattan Institute‘s Empire CenterÂ recently noted when it went through the budget bills, there appears to still be a lot of money to be allocated. The institute found “only” about $101 million in pork-barrel projects in the legislation; the total is supposed to be $170 million. Which is to say, stay tuned.

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